ere's no living_, _my boy_, _without plenty of 22
gold_

2. _O think not you'll change what on high is designed_ 22

3. _Load not thyself with gold_, _O mortal man_, _for 22
know_

NOTE.--Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for the
first time in this volume.

The Manuscripts of the poems included in _Ellen of Villenskov and Other
Ballads_ are in the Library of Mr. Clement K. Shorter.

There is a copy of _Ellen of Villenskov and Other Ballads_ in the Library
of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38.

(36) [THE SONGS OF RANILD: 1913]

The Songs of Ranild / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private
Circulation / 1913.

Collation:--Square demy octavo, pp. 26; consisting of: Half-title (with
blank reverse) pp. 1-2; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp.
3-4; and Text of the Poems pp. 5-26. There are head-lines throughout,
each page being headed with the title of the particular poem occupying
it. Following p. 26 is a leaf, with a notice regarding the American
copyright upon the reverse, and with the following imprint upon its
recto: "_London_: / _Printed for Thomas J. Wise_, _Hampstead_, _N.W._ /
_Edition limited to Thirty Copies_." The signatures are A (six leaves),
and B (a full sheet of eight leaves), the one inset within the other.

Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges, and with the
title-page reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 8.5 x 6.875
inches.

Thirty Copies only were printed.

_Contents_.

PAGE

The Songs of Ranild:

Song the First. [_Up Riber's street the dance they ply_] 5

Song the Second. [_To saddle his courser Ranild cried_] 10

Song the Third. [_So wide around the tidings bound_] 13

Child Stig and Child Findal. [_Child Stig and Child 17
Findal two brothers were they_]

_The Songs of Ranild_ were first written in 1826, and
were finally prepared for press in 1854. I give
herewith, facing p. 191, a facsimile, the exact size of
the original, of the first page of the first draft of
_Song the Third_.

The complete MS. from which these four Ballads were
printed is in the Library of Mr. J. A. Spoor, of Chicago.

There is a copy of _The Songs of Ranild_ in the Library of the Britis